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Posts Tagged ‘Maritimes’

March 19th, 2016 - 3:09 pm § in New Brunswick

Burger as Memory: Grease-Fueled Recollections of Murray Beach, N.B.

I often read that food is love, but it’s also memory. Such is the case with the burger shack of Murray Beach, New Brunswick, in the Canadian Maritimes.

Tags: Beach towns, burger, Canada, hamburgers, Maritimes, memory, New Brunswick

September 24th, 2012 - 8:27 am § in New Brunswick

Up All Night in Moncton, New Brunswick

We didn’t know what we were going to get ourselves into. We had just spent a week camping and hiking and were about to enter our first “real” city in days. All we knew about Moncton was that it held about 70,000 people and that it had bars in it that would be open and serving beer.

Tags: alcotourism, Canada, dive bars, drinking, ManicTimes, Maritimes, Moncton, New Brunswick, pizza, Up All Night

June 19th, 2012 - 8:28 am § in New Brunswick

From Queens to Queens: My Two Introductions to Saint John, New Brunswick

It wasn't just through education, but through travel that I realized how to break free. These ideas really took root on that first trip to Saint John.

Tags: Canada, creative nonfiction, from whence we came, homophobia, intolerance, Maritimes, New Brunswick, Queens, Saint John, urban